One Dartmouth developer ticked a box on Wednesday, while another will have to wait. The municipality’s Design Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to city planners on the design elements of proposals under the Centre Plan, met virtually with two proposals on the agenda: one for Wyse Road and one for Pleasant Street. Both proposals are...
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Park name changes, parking for free, roadside memorials, and more: Halifax council roundup
Cornwallis Park is now officially Peace and Friendship Park. Halifax regional council voted unanimously in favour of the staff recommendation to rename the park on Tuesday. The motion also starts a public consultation process to choose a new name for Cornwallis Street. Councillors tacked on an amendment too, looking to create a process for future […]
Halifax councillor wants staff report on municipality’s use of polygraph testing
Coun. Shawn Cleary wants a staff report on the municipality’s use of polygraph testing for employment screening. At the end of council’s meeting on Tuesday, Cleary gave the following notice of motion: That Halifax Regional Council requests a staff report on developing an evidence-based formal policy for polygraph testing for the purposes of human resource […]
Kayla Borden’s lawyer says this is what systemic racism looks like
"Kayla’s complaint is against the Halifax Regional Police, in its entirety. It implicates the officer that arrested her. It implicates the officers who participated in her arrest and stood by and watched it happen. It implicates the staff that made it difficult for her to file a complaint and refused to provide her (or me) with any information concerning the incident. It implicates the officer that conducted the investigation. It implicates the officer who wrote the decision dismissing the complaint. And, finally, it implicates a police force that continues to deny that it has a racism problem and has ignored a litany of recommendations aimed at addressing issues around race."
Kayla Borden wasn’t just complaining about the two officers who handcuffed her last summer. She was complaining about the whole force. But her lawyer is concerned, as the complaint heads to the Nova Scotia Police Review Board, that the way Halifax Regional Police investigated her complaint will limit the scope of the hearing into the […]
Staff recommend Halifax council officially rename Cornwallis Park to Peace and Friendship Park
The park where a statue of Halifax’s so-called founder once stood may no longer bear his name after council’s meeting on Tuesday. The municipality stopped calling Cornwallis Park by that name after removing the statue of Edward Cornwallis — who was sent in 1749 to settle Halifax and later issued a bounty on the scalps […]
Environment committee recommends in favour of water quality monitoring at 74 lakes across HRM
Council’s environmental committee is recommending the municipality start testing lake water quality, implementing a monitoring program for the first time since 2011. Under a plan submitted to council’s Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee during its virtual meeting on Thursday, based on a report from consultants AECOM, 74 of the more than 1,000 lakes across Halifax...
Appeals court throws out Heritage Trust application to shrink Brunswick Street development
A development approved for Brunswick Street is not too tall for the area, Nova Scotia’s highest court ruled on Thursday. It’s likely the end of the line for the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia’s fight against the proposal from developer Adam Barrett’s Brunswick Street Developments Ltd. for a 42-unit, eight-storey residential building at 2267 Brunswick...
At $95.7 million, Dexter Construction submits lowest bid for Cogswell Interchange construction
Dexter Construction is in line to get the contract for the Cogswell Interchange project, submitting the lowest bid for the work at more than $95 million. Halifax first issued a request for qualifications for the project in 2018, outlining the scope of work for the successful bidder. That includes tearing down the existing labyrinth of...
Liberals vote down motion for more data on Nova Scotians at risk of eviction
Liberal MLAs reluctantly agreed to hold an extra meeting to discuss Nova Scotia’s housing crisis, but wouldn’t support a motion for more data on potential homelessness during a standing committee meeting on Tuesday. The legislature’s Standing Committee on Community Services met virtually with “Housing and COVID-19 and the homelessness crisis” on the agenda. The committee […]
Work underway to search grounds of former Shubenacadie Residential School
“To date no graves or human remains have been found” at the site of the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, according to the Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative, but the search is continuing. Last week, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced that the remains of 215 children were found at the site of the former Kamloops […]
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